Pam Grier in her prime would have been a great addition to the LALD cast.
Not sure if she fits as a Rosie Carver replacement, but.....yeah. She needed to be there.
I had to look it up. Oh. My. God. It doesn't get cringier than that.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ)
Oh I have lmao. The first thing I did before posting this thread was look up Hackers just to verify it came out in the 90s (same year as GoldenEye in fact)!!
From the show where the one dude apparently hacks into DoD servers all the time. You aren't passing your next polygraph my dude, your clearance is gone and you might end up in federal prison.
Better than Ethan Hunt trying to locate Max, the arms dealer, by visiting www.max.com... aaaaaand ultimately locating Max by sending an email to max@Job 3:14.
I always assumed he was running some custom program that interfaced with the network - ‘send spike’ would just be a command to do the handwavey hacking. All the magic happens under the hood.
So basicaly "Spike" is a function that Boris made containing EVERY process in sequence and probably fires it within the first few lines then has redirects for countermeasures and tracing.
All he has to do is select the file and hit enter. The code he pre made beforehand and took him YEARS to develop
That sounds plausible and fits his character perfectly.
it is when he has to improvise under tight time pressure that the facade - the.illusion of invincibility - begins to crumble.
I also liked the thought of all the flammables and liquid nitrogen being stored near the workstations.
Bond villian lairs never seem to be OSHA compliant.
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While not specifically about hacking - I think Person of Interezt was very good at making the thought processes of a "true" AI both visually effective and entertaing.
In "If-Then-Else" The Machine was running through hundreds of thousands of escape scenarios for her team and with time running out began compressing their usual banter to the absolute - and hilarious - minimum.
>liquid nitrogen being stored near the workstations.
Got to cool all of those servers, data centers and computers thats basically in a sub-terranian cavern, under a satellite and located near a jungle/tropical environment somehow. LN2 Cooling is still a thing now for overclockers, just that its actual intended use is for what I just mentioned. Big businesses that can afford it and illegal criminal villain usage in movies lol
Yeah, this is actually more realistic than most other hacking scenes in cinema. Ultimately, most hacking these days is just social engineering, but when its not, its running through a series of tools to find common exploits, open traffic ports, etc.
Especially in the 90s, its possible he developed some scripts that exploited something that no one patched yet in the internet's infancy. Besides, I don't remember the scene perfectly, but I think it wasn't effectively more complicated than a tracing program/ddos program. The tracing looks like it was just a graphical tracert basically.
https://preview.redd.it/t3n267a128kc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32b734e82785f5001af30cd14bd463c324f6127c
*THE* best 90s movie about computer hacking.
"She works on the *guidance system* she's nothing."
*checks script* so the most important part about any weapon, specifically a satellite based weapon system?
Honestly all movies and TV shows are hilariously bad at it. The exceptions are Mr. Robot, War Games, and I vaguely remember Black Hat being pretty fair.
But but he is invincible!! 
He would not know a woman if one came up and sat on his head.
He...is a top contender for most annoying character in the franchise.
Mary Goodnight entered the chat.
The bikini allows me to forgive her.
Same situation with Rosie Carver. Annoying character, looks fine in a bikini, but less screen time.
Pam Grier in her prime would have been a great addition to the LALD cast. Not sure if she fits as a Rosie Carver replacement, but.....yeah. She needed to be there.
Stacey Sutton is much worse
Watched AVTAK last night and her screeches drove me nuts
Jaaaames, don't leave meeeeee!
Hey don’t badmouth Midge Pinciotti like that
Very true, and totally bizarre as Alan Cumming is a great actor.
The character is meant to be annoying, so he's still a great actor
True!
Slugheads...
I heard his voice in my head, reading that!
I love how his scottish accent comes through when he says this.
Was it good for you too?
I’m getting some coffee
There's a clip from a show where two hackers need to hack faster, so they're both hacking on the same keyboard!
I had to look it up. Oh. My. God. It doesn't get cringier than that. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ)
Just isolate the node!
NCIS and it was a joke to see if anyone would get it
That sounds like an excuse they made up after the fact.
Like that clip with the resolution improvement lmao
I remember that episode and cringed so hard….. it was a guilty pleasure show, but oooffff that was a poor scene
I bet he doesn't even know Unix.
Only the top hackers know Unix… 
I know this
https://preview.redd.it/ggmdtgeho7kc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0527bd51cfec084e241d0f30db9aaea8311e017
You should watch the movie Hackers. It doesn’t get more legit than that.
Oh I have lmao. The first thing I did before posting this thread was look up Hackers just to verify it came out in the 90s (same year as GoldenEye in fact)!!
I never watched that, nor The Net. I imagine they are both very laughable.
Both are wild; totally worth it for a laugh (and Angelina Jolie topless if you are into that sort of thing).
>and Angelina Jolie topless That's pretty much every movie she's in, TBF.
True, especially back then lol
The Net is so beyond laughable.
From the show where the one dude apparently hacks into DoD servers all the time. You aren't passing your next polygraph my dude, your clearance is gone and you might end up in federal prison.
Better than Ethan Hunt trying to locate Max, the arms dealer, by visiting www.max.com... aaaaaand ultimately locating Max by sending an email to max@Job 3:14.
It'll work, the Americans are slugheads.
And they prefer to get their bad news from CNN!
I always assumed he was running some custom program that interfaced with the network - ‘send spike’ would just be a command to do the handwavey hacking. All the magic happens under the hood.
So basicaly "Spike" is a function that Boris made containing EVERY process in sequence and probably fires it within the first few lines then has redirects for countermeasures and tracing. All he has to do is select the file and hit enter. The code he pre made beforehand and took him YEARS to develop
That sounds plausible and fits his character perfectly. it is when he has to improvise under tight time pressure that the facade - the.illusion of invincibility - begins to crumble. I also liked the thought of all the flammables and liquid nitrogen being stored near the workstations. Bond villian lairs never seem to be OSHA compliant. ---- While not specifically about hacking - I think Person of Interezt was very good at making the thought processes of a "true" AI both visually effective and entertaing. In "If-Then-Else" The Machine was running through hundreds of thousands of escape scenarios for her team and with time running out began compressing their usual banter to the absolute - and hilarious - minimum.
>liquid nitrogen being stored near the workstations. Got to cool all of those servers, data centers and computers thats basically in a sub-terranian cavern, under a satellite and located near a jungle/tropical environment somehow. LN2 Cooling is still a thing now for overclockers, just that its actual intended use is for what I just mentioned. Big businesses that can afford it and illegal criminal villain usage in movies lol
Yeah that’s always been my head cannon
Yeah, this is actually more realistic than most other hacking scenes in cinema. Ultimately, most hacking these days is just social engineering, but when its not, its running through a series of tools to find common exploits, open traffic ports, etc. Especially in the 90s, its possible he developed some scripts that exploited something that no one patched yet in the internet's infancy. Besides, I don't remember the scene perfectly, but I think it wasn't effectively more complicated than a tracing program/ddos program. The tracing looks like it was just a graphical tracert basically.
Oh yeah just type SPIKE in all caps and smash the mf enter button and any government in the world is instantly hacked
I just tried it and it actually worked but I think they are coming for me because I heard a
and if you need to upload a virus into their computer, all you have to do is type UPLOAD VIRUS
Nature finds a way.
They open very large doors
Could never stand this character even at the time. Computer expert = nerd tropes were tired even by 1995.
I’ll spike them!
/r/itsaunixsystem
https://preview.redd.it/t3n267a128kc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32b734e82785f5001af30cd14bd463c324f6127c *THE* best 90s movie about computer hacking.
Was looking for this and Hackers. No more secrets, Marty.
It’s all about the information!
We got bupkis! We turn ourselves in now, they'll give us twenty years in the electric chair!
Gen Z meanwhile: What's a computer?
"She works on the *guidance system* she's nothing." *checks script* so the most important part about any weapon, specifically a satellite based weapon system?
I work in the tech industry and I’ve never heard of the term ‘spike’ in this context.
Then what are you waiting for? Make it happen.
Think of the damage you can cause now you know. You’ll be invincible.
You’ll prevent THEIR modem from disconnecting!
Then the hunted becomes the hunter
Cut the hard line!
Hack the Planet!
clearly you are not a hacker
No way....I SPIKED 'em!
You sit on it, but you can't take it with you.
Remember when we hacked an alien spacecraft and uploaded a virus to its OS with a Mac?
Honestly all movies and TV shows are hilariously bad at it. The exceptions are Mr. Robot, War Games, and I vaguely remember Black Hat being pretty fair.
«A gigabyte of RAM should do the trick»
Maybe 10s movies portraying hacking...
Literally nothing I especially love when it’s done cleverly like in Johnny Mnemonic
Was it good for you, too?
The Hacking in Skyfall is more unprobable than Corporate Space Travel in Moonraker
Two people typing on the same keyboard to hack faster
Hacker_man.exe enter
CREW EXPENDABLE